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When did yo know that you wanted to have another child?

My husband and I have a 4 yr old boy and a 9 month old little girl and we were hoping to have them closer in age but I ended up having fertility problems the second time round so it took longer then expected. Now were thinking about trying for our third and last this year and I was just wondering what are some of the things you questioned befor you decided it was time to start trying again?

We knew we wanted two, and had planned on trying to get pregnant with our second when our first turned a year old. When his first birthday came, I just wasn't ready to get pregnant yet, so we planned on trying when he turned two, which we did.

We were going for as close as possible since I feared fertility problems and knew if we went for fertility treatments it'd clean us out financially and we wouldn't even want a baby then. They ended up 19m apart to the day and we were thrilled. They're now 6 and 4.5 and we'll be TTC later this year sometime for a 3rd and probably final. If a 4th feels right though I'll assume we'll do it as fast as possible again., We'd be ok with just the 3 and 4 would be my max

I've always known I wanted a big family...when baby #1 came along, I wanted to wait two years and try for #2, hubby wanted to wait until we were out of our apartment. Right before DS turned 3, I got pregnant w/ Baby#2 "on accident." :P